Fifty Shades of Lust

Just a few weeks ago I got myself a copy on a very beautiful read, and I have a very famous new type of read to thank for that. It was in such a “oh well” manner how I got the book. I had just popped into a stationary store in the hope of getting my hands on the much then talked about book Fifty Shades of Grey. I thought it would be all over the store since it was the title on everyone’s lips, but to my avail it wasn't.  So I went on onto the Internet to get the author’s name, and since I knew nothing of the book I decided to read the book synopsis while I was at it. Can I just take this moment to thank Wikipedia’s very straightforward and factual way of explaining/ describing/updating us on things of the world, because it took just one sentence from the book’s page on Wikipedia to know EXACTLY what that book was about and I immediately lost all interest in it. It read “Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic novel by British Author E.L James” It took no further reading to know that the book wasn't my glass of wine. 

I mean really, a whole 500 odd paged novel on sexual escapades? Really?! Is that what our reading has been reduced to? I thought we already had almost half of the film industry dedicated to the arousal of people’s minds and their genitals. Is it not enough that people can walk into a store solely made for the exchange of erotic films and all other sexual toys? And need I mention how you may do so at any time of day? Or so I've heard, I mean I wouldn't know of anything of that sort. As if already our televisions aren’t bombarded with all things sexual.  We get the point that “sex sells” but it can’t sell EVERYTHING!! And now somebody had to go on and barge in on such an elite industry as that of books. Just what we need right?!

I’m not saying that there haven’t been any books of this sort, there’s an endless shelf of Mills & Boon in my very own home to contest my word on that. But this one must be a first of its kind; its rather very graphic, or at least I can imagine it to be with the choice of the word ‘erotic’ used to describe it. Its ‘hard-core porn’ whereas the products of Mills & Boon are more tasteful in their nature.  This book is a first of its kind and it hit everybody by storm. It sold over 65 million copies worldwide, now that is a very impressive number. “The fastest-selling paperback of all time” it says on Wikipedia.  

Well it appears that the inhabitants of this world have been waiting for a read such as this. Could it be that finally something extremely sexual wasn't hidden away in a dodgy shop down the street corner? Or maybe its because the age restriction of ‘R Rated’ films was uncapped when put on paper. That should explain the fast pace of its selling. Or could it be that people are more comfortable now to talk about sex, are more people being sexually liberated now? The sales and the talk surrounding this book leaves me with lots of questions regarding us as humans. Are we a sexually frustrated people looking for some sort of relieve from our core lusts? Does our image scream out “must see sex” to the media drivers? So much that it leads them to think that sex must be displayed in all corners possible of  our interaction with the world?                                                 H’mmm don’t think I’ll get all these answers from regular folk but what I can deduce from all this is that there is a yearning for a satisfaction of peoples sexual desires. We are a lustful people!!